Show TilE THE MESSAGE OF 0 POETRY The following address va was waa delivered deliver deliver- ed by Ml Miss Mills s Annie Wilkinson year class clan clays representative at the graduation grad nation exercises s of the D. D A. A C C. C May Mr Chairman members of the board lard fellow students and friends Our noisy years ears seem sem moments In Inthe Inthe inthe the being Of the eternal silence truths that that wake to perish never Which neither listlessness nor mad endeavor Nor man nor boy nor all that is il at enmity with joy I I Can Can utterly abolish or destroy Hence I in a season of calm Whether though inland far we b be Our c- c have sight of that immortal immor Immor- tal sea Ilea Which brought us hither Can In a moment travel thither And see the children sport upon the shore And hear hea the mighty waters rolling evermore e This stanza of the English poet Wordsworth has hal a R message in it h that poetry is the evidence from God to man of or immortality In our complexities complexities com com- of life lite we wI are pr prone prone t e to become become become be- be come too practical We get too much I absorbed in financial gain and be bo- come corne of the bits of heaven that lie around us We may mayI I even seven become discouraged and think that life tife is s hardly worth living If we understand poetry poe in It its I various forms we e will recognize thin thil message that that the Divine Creator has placed on earth bits of heaven to cheer us usand usand usand I and give us hope Poetry is JI not only a stanza or verse ene I It is I. the noblest of human thoughts and also aho the finest and most mOlt unselfish actions It is anything that expresses ones one's finer liner and better self That finer reaction of soul may come corne from viewing the beautiful phen phenomena mena of nature Poetry is the upward ings of the soul loul or the wonders of na nature na na- ture itself We Pe can all observe the many examples if we but notice the beauty that lies around us and re recognize recognize recognize re- re cognize the Divine Power that has made these things Poetry can be expressed in the handiwork of human beings a as well avell as 85 the handiwork of God A fine piece of or embroidery work well plan i ined ned and then expressed in a beautiful pattern is an example of poetry The Theartist Theartist artist expresses poetry in his paint ings The musician puts into his compositions compositions com com- positions and playing that same spirit of or immortality which enables us to feel more clearly this message mellage of poetry Poetry and its twin sister music are arp the most sublime and spiritual of arts The immortality of the soul is expressed in these various var various var- var ious outlets To quote Coleridge For poetry is the blossom and fragrance of all an human knowledge Continued on Page 5 OF or POETRY 4 Y MESSAGE 4 Fags y Page 4 from rOm p human p passions thou n of living hying w e e ethe i jot y the would life liCe be abat r fI element that almost mall mal malice t lelle en e to tots In inn n ce e. e II Its ts wonder Bonder appreciate that can poetry world r the of the influence nce est and and nd Joy that any arV anyone ore one h Tape pe ions of ot poetry can have e refer reler to Pippa Passes let Id uS oa was a littler little Pippa year ear every ery o spent rl r Od work exception of on one ens day wondered lacto She aili factory 1 t a would spend pend her ber one holiday holidayed and ed to pass other people e not with ith the idea happiness if them bent however hoover She pass singing as 81 she went un hill the be ear sra at t the th e spring g Im I'm st at t th the morn Mornings Morning's at seven seen Th The hillsides hillside's pearled dew The larks larks on the The snails snail's on the thorn Gods God's In his heaven beaven- Alls All's right with the world This simple little peasant girl in influenced influenced in in- the lives of eight people i while passing on her holiday y These i people were far greater than she so 80 I far as wealth was as concerned but they failed to express their soul poetry poto poe try in service to others and In spread ing kind words so Pippa truly hUly was Continued on Page 8 THE TilE OF POETRY Continued from Page B 5 greater gr The better thoughts of ot human I beings their appreciation of poetical influences in nature their desires to todo todo todo do better things to be unselfish and do good are evidences of ot poetry Poetry t is III expressed in un unselfish ac actions ac y t lions Individual efforts to think and net act worthily and their efforts of ot service to mankind and to the world in general A very fine example e of at unselfish lie service rv Ice which is an expression of poetry happened a short time ago One of the graduates was having ahard a hard hud time to get her work done be fore graduation So much extra a work was Wall given to her to do do that it seemed seemed seem seem- ed that she ahe would never get her graduation atlon dress made One of her relatives noticed that she was wu having havinga It a difficult time to accomplish all s eq 11 she made the dress The girls girl's gra was overwhelming but the quiet smile of ot the doer showed that she hc too tOI was wu contented in giving this expression on to her true ideal of the poetry of life Jill We do not have to give big things to make others happy A kind word wordIn In time of need or some little act of kindness to some one will bring happiness hap happ the same name way Anyone who is truly great expresses his soul poe try by giving to others even If his gift Is small and what comfort and gladness it brings Evidences of ot poetry abound ever every every- wh where I re The trees of ot various kinds in their glorious robes of or green standIng stand ing so noble and stately are surely living expressions of ot poetry That bird which so cheerily expresses Its joy of ot living and gladness to the world is another evidence of of poetry It seems to o be alive always to its surroundings sur aura and Its joy is caroled in indelicate indelicate delicate heartfelt strains of ot music Surely these thelle living messengers messenger bf ot joy and good cheer are expressions of or tomo somo of ot the highest poetry of earth Shelly writes of the Skylark its ex of and the joy it gives him to hear it John Keats says The poetry of ot earth Is never dead When all the birds are faint taint with the hot sun I And hides In cooling trees A voice will run from hedge to hedge About the new mown mead mend That is the grasshoppers grasshopper's i lie He takes the lead lead leadIn leadIn leadIn In summer luxury l he e has never done With his hla delights for when tired outI out I with fun He lie rests at ease beneath some pleasant pleasant pleas pleas- ant weed The poetry of earth is ceasing never On a lone winter evening t When the frost trost has wrought a sit all ence From Irom the stove there shrills th the crickets cricket song r t In warmth increasing ever And seems to one in drowsiness half halt haltI I lost The grasshoppers grasshopper's among the grassy h hills No matter how lonc lonely y the desert and how dreary the place may seem some come hope and joy can be found S Some e bird l Lie Be e it ever so 80 small and t we might think unimportant can be seen or heard to to cheer us In the narrowest nook and most uninviting V. V place some little flower can be found round o Flower in the wall I pluck yo you out of the crannies I hold you here root root- nd all in my hand Little flower flower but but if I could under stand What you are root and all and all in to all I should know what God and man Is This shows the influence that a tiny flower as s an expression of poetry can have on the life uc of or a great man like Tennyson In the darkest night when the clouds almost en engulf lf everything some tiny star will peep from behind and cast its ray of light for the lonely traveler to see that he mi might gift know that he is not rejected The clouds cloud are only onty a temporary veil and always ahva's the light will gleam through and how much hope these stars in the firmament firma ment merit convey to man In the dreariest place in the world can be found some evidence of poetry which can cheer theer us and make ua us u feel that the world is good Carman delights in earth poetry when he says Over the shoulders and slopes of the the- I dune I saw law the white daisies go IrO down to the sea A host in th the sunshine an arm army in inJune inJune inJune June The people God sends us to set our hearts hear free The bobolinks rallied them up from the dell The orioles whistled them out of ot the woods And all aU their saying was Earth it Is well And all aU their dancing was Life Ufe thou art Poetry then improves our lives hes by giving a purpose or ideal to live Ih up of ot nature suggests Emerson says TI not In the high stars alone atone r Nor rr r in the cup of budding flowers Nor or In the redbreast mellow tone Nor Not In the bow that smiles in showers Cut But fn In the mud and scum of ot things thing'S I There always always something sings Let us grasp the message of poe to and inspires us u. to be as the poetry try then that Immortality Is on this earth to give hope for brighter thing things and that our soul poetry in the form torm of kind words word and actions ma may likewise likewise like like- wise influence mankind to do better II useful Let us u. make our lives more and better by exercising that expression I sion lion of poetry that we all have of unselfish living and doing service to others others I |